Music, sound, and other noise. Welcome to Edition 141.
lots to share:
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Lessons from the Luddites
https://www.furtherfield.org/lessons-from-the-luddites
“All the young people now learning how to write code for industry may find that the industry has disappeared by the time they graduate, and that their programming skills give no insight into the workings of Deep Learning networks. So, it seems that the scene is set for programming to be untethered from necessity. The activity of programming, free from a military-industrial imperative, may become dedicated almost entirely to cultural activities such as music-making and sculpture, augmenting human abilities to bring understanding to our own data, breathing computational pattern into our lives. Programming languages could slowly become closer to natural languages, simply by developing through use while embedded in culture. Perhaps the growing practice of Live Coding, where software artists have been developing computer languages for creative coding, live interaction and music-making over the past two decades, are a precursor to this. My hope is that we will begin to think of code and data in the same way as we do of knitting patterns and weaving block designs, because from my perspective, they are one and the same, all formal languages, with their structures intricately and literally woven into our everyday lives.”
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Explaining Deleuze with drum machines
This is just about the perfect catnip for me, or at least, media studies me.
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An introduction to the gonzo retro video game soundtracks by Tim Follin:
The insane soundtrack for Pictionary: the Game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (1990)
The best of Tim Follin [yt playlist]
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More gaming notes:
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On a totally different vibe, Tilda Swinton Narrates Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Last and First Men
#kino
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Finally, some recent inspirational production tools:
Bluearp arpeggiator / sequencer
(free VST, with a hardware unit currently in production)
Super powerful arp with different patterns based on note, key, length, gate, octave, etc. love love love this.
MDD Snake 3.2.2
I absolutely love this max for live device sequencer/modulator, I just can’t say enough good things about it. (see also, make noise rene)
-Matt
Matt Pinto is a musician and designer based in New York.
2022 release: Defunct International Airports [bandcamp] now, streaming [spotify] [youtube music]